Sudan's military expels top UN food aid officials as conflict escalates

[muriel_volestrangler]

Sudan's military government has ordered two senior officials at the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) to leave the country amid widespread famine sparked by a gruelling civil war that erupted in April 2023.

The WFP said directors of its Sudan operation were declared "personae non grata" and told to go within 72 hours, without explanation.

The decision comes days after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), captured the key city of el-Fasher in Darfur from the military after an 18-month siege, which included a food blockade.

The WFP said the expulsions came a "pivotal time" as humanitarian needs in Sudan had "never been greater with more than 24 million people facing acute food insecurity".

Although the military government has not given a reason for the expulsions, it has previously accused aid groups of breaking local laws and releasing misleading reports on famine conditions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yp2v4n1d5o

[nycbos]

1. Won't hear anything from the campus activists.

[sarisataka]

2. Or anyone else...

[nycbos]

3. And I wonder why that will be.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. If you recommend the OP, it might make it to the Greatest page (nt)

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Thanks for the rec - and they're having a Security Council session on this

Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors meet in emergency session on Sudan

Reports of mass atrocities in and around the newly-captured city of El Fasher in Darfur mark a new low in Sudan's brutal civil war and the Security Council met in emergency session on Thursday morning in New York to address the rapidly deteriorating situation. Civilians are facing starvation and mass displacement as the UN continues providing lifesaving aid throughout the country

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166222

BBC radio just led with this as their top story.

[CMell]

4. One of those wars you don't hear much about.

Because no Europeans, and no oil.

[sarisataka]

6. Europeans are not a factor

There is another conflict that gets lots of attention but does not involve Europeans